HARRISBURG - State Agriculture Secretary Penrose HaUoweU left Thursday on a 16-day trip to Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Greece to support Pennsylvania's efforts to expand foreign trade of food and agriculture products. His trim, scheduled for.Peb. 3-19, will in clude participation in two in ternational food shows in his capacity as president of the Eastern United States Agriculture and Food Export Council. “The Thornburgh ad ministration has placed a priority on expanding foreign markets for Pennsylvania food products,” HalloweU said. “Agricultural exports provide us with a favorable balance of trade, sup port the domestic economy and create Jobs here at home. “United States farm product exports created a million-plus jobs for Americans and generated more than |B2 billion in the export related economic community in 1960,” HaUoweU said. - The Agriculture Secretary will attend the U.SI Solo Food Products Exhibition in Manama, Bahrain Feb. 7-10. 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They are the Bachman Pretzel Company of Reading, Hanover Brands,' Inc. of Hanover and the Franklin Extension Assn, elects directors CHAMBERSBURG - Seven new members were seated on the Board of Directors of the Franklin County Agricultural Extension Assoication last Friday during the annual meeting at Kauffmans Station. AU terms will be for three years. Four of these were elected by the membership to represent various townships. These included: Carl D. Wenger, Letterkenny Township; Isaac Horst, Lurgan Township; William E. Swailes, Metal Township; and Clarence Stouffer, Montgomery Township. Three new directors-at-large were appointed by the elected directorship the same evening: Rebecca Schoenberg, Paxton Run Working for people who work the (and AGWAY INSURANCE LIFE • HEALTH • FARM Empire Kosher Poultry Co. of Mifflintown. The same three firms will also show at Saudi Food ’B3, Feb. 12-15 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a similar food trade show geared strictly toward Saudi Arabian buyers. 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Box 4851, Syracuse, NY 13221, or call toll-free 1 -800-448-5523, except in New York State call 1-800-962-5587. business contacts in those cities for Pennsylvania farm organizations and agribusinesses. “The United States has a net export trade balance of more than $1.4 billion each year from trade with these eight nations,” HaUoweU said. “Pennsylvania’s farm and food companies now recognize the Middle East as very fertile ground for expanding aopointed to serve at-large for a second three-year term. The Ml twenty-seven-member Board conducts the business of the Franklin County Agricultural Extension Association, and cooperates with the Penn State Extension staff in the carrying out of a broad-based informal PGC gets new ex. director ministered by Commonwealth Court Judge Joseph T. (Ted) Doyle. Duncan took the oath in the presence of his wife Rebecca and son Andrew, members of the commission and commission employes. 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For arrangements for special sales or herd dispersals at our barn or on your farm, contact; Abram Diffenbach, Mgr. 717-354-4341 OR \ Norman Kolb 717-397-5538 foreign sales, because the demand for value-added agricultural products is increasing in the region. “We will continue our efforts to help Pennsylvania agribusinesses take advantage of trade op portunities in the Middle East and in other regions of the world where demand for top quality products Is growing,” he said. educational program in Franklin County. New officers, and other mem bers of the Executive Committee, as well as various delegates, will be elected from within the Board at the first regular Board meeting to be held next Tuesday in the Valleybank Building, Cham bersburg. Department of Environmental Resources prior to assuming his new post, becomes the fifteenth executive director of the Game Commission, which was created in 1895. He succeeds Glenn L. Bowers.
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